MUZAFFARGARH: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) arrested a naib tehsildar in the alleged land fraud case between the members of the Khar family, including former minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
The ACE officials arrested Naib Tehsildar Ata Kanera in a case against former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar and 25 others under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act on the complaint of Malik Abdul Khaliq Khar, a stepbrother of Hina registered in 2018.
According to the first information report (FIR), Hina, her father the late Malik Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar, her brother Malik Raza Rabbani Khar, other family members and the officials, including naib tehsildars, qanoongos and patwaris, were involved in tampering with the record and transferring 1,595 kanal land illegally at different times from 1971 to 1983.
Khaliq alleged that he was a child when the revenue officials and his father had got the land of his mother transferred.
The ACE department called the Khar family members but they did not appear.
Noor Rabbani Khar had divorced his wife Zaibun Nisa, the mother of Khaliq. After his divorce, he contracted marriage with Sumaira Khar.
Malik Raza Rabbani Khar claimed the case was based on lies because when the land was transferred, he was not even born while other members were children.
He said his career was clean in his constituency and he was not afraid of a fake case while he had moved the Lahore High Court Multan bench.
IMPERSONATOR: A man was arrested for impersonating an army officer to extort money from the poor women on the pretext of registering them with Ehsas Kafalat Programme and taking money from them.
Talking to the media in Muzaffargarh on Friday, Ehsas Kafalat Programme Assistant Director Muhammad Zafar Malik said a man, named Ayub, was involved in the fraud for the last six months. Three days earlier, some women came to the office and complained to the officer that Ayub had got their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) and took money from them. He said when his staff caught him and contacted the police, CNICs of 20 to 25 women were found on him.
Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2022